The Russian Defense Ministry has reported that members of the Al-Qaeda affiliated White Helmets are in Aleppo staging a chemical weapons attack to incriminate the Bashar Assad government.

The White Helmets have already begun filming, involving foreigners, the Russian military said.

“Militants from illegal armed groups do not abandon their attempts to destabilize the situation in the Idlib de-escalation zone. The Russian reconciliation center has received information from Aleppo residents that the White Helmets are preparing another provocation with the use of toxic agents to accuse government forces to use chemical weapons against the local population,” said Lieutenant-General Vladimir Savchenko, quoted by the Russian Defense Ministry.